arXiv AI
Sep 3

HEAT: Faster Fully Homomorphic Inference via Approximations-Weights Co-Adaptation

HEAT introduces a fine‑tuning method that treats the number of iterations used to approximate nonlinearities in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) as learnable parameters, allowing them to co‑adapt with model weights. By optimizing iteration counts per nonlinearity, HEAT reduces the required iterations, bootstraps, and overall latency for encrypted GPT‑2 decoding while improving decode agreement. The approach achieves a 3.1× reduction in iterations, a 1.6× reduction in bootstraps, and a 1.4× speed‑up in end‑to‑end latency without changing the model architecture or requiring retraining from scratch.

By Alessandro Zirilli, Davide Marincione, Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos, Giuseppe Ateniese, Emanuele Rodol\`a
arXiv AI
2d ago

SpliTEE: Improving LLM Inference on Trusted Hardware with Differentially Private GPU Outsourcing

SpliTEE extends the split‑inference architecture of Slalom to large language models by protecting intermediate GPU computations with differential privacy rather than encryption. The authors show that masking intermediate representations is essential, as a prompt‑reconstruction attack can recover prompts with about 80% accuracy. Their global sensitivity analysis bounds the noise needed, and they demonstrate that SpliTEE on Intel TDX achieves near‑double the speed of fully CPU‑based inference and outperforms encryption‑based Slalom while maintaining higher accuracy.

By Shashie Dilhara Batan Arachchige, Robin Carpentier, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Dali Kaafar